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From the first time I heard a nujabes beat I was hooked on his music and it was a damn shame when I found out about his death last year, major loss to his musical genre but he left his mark on the world of anime by composing the intro and most of the soundtrack to the already amazing Samurai Champloo, he just made the anime even more epic with his creative genius. I'm guessing somebody has already beat me to it in putting his intro song to samurai champloo forward into this thread but i felt like I needed to have my say too, So heres to Battlecry by Nujabes a classic anime tune. RIP Nujabes.

Sorry for the very very long delayed post. I'll be doing only weekly chart reports from now on. I'm finalizing my top 1000 songs of all time (900 of which are set in stone) and learning about creating a web page for it. Hopefully I could finish it by the end of the year. In the meantime here are the charts since I've been gone.

Below are Symphogear's sales record (all are out of the Oricon Top 200 Singles):

79,505 copies sold (15 wks on the chart, last charted on April 24), "Synchrogazer" by Nana Mizuki (OP)
27,546 copies sold (13 wks on the chart, last charted on April 24), "Gyakkou no Flugel/ORBITAL BEAT" by Zwei Wing (Character Song #1)
19,902 copies sold (7wks on the chart, last charted on May 1), "Zettou Ameno Habakiri/Flight Feathers" by Nana Mizuki (Character Song #3)
13,698 copies sold (5 wks on the chart, last charted on May 1), "Makyuu Ichii-Baru/Tsunaida Te Dake ga Tsumugu Mono" by Ayahi Takagaki (Character Song #4)
13,441 copies sold (7 wks on the chart, last charted on April 17), "Gekisou Gungnir/Watashi to Iu Oto Hibiki Sono Saki ni" by Aoi Yuuki (Character Song #2),
9,041 copies sold (5 wks on the chart, last charted on April 3), "Meteor Light" by Ayahi Takagaki (ED)
(bundled with the limited edition BD/DVD Vol.1), "Kimi to Iu Oto Kanade Tsukiru Made" by Minami Takayama

One or two might still bounce back into the Top 200 in the coming weeks

EXTRA:
Every year, in their June issue, Animage Magazine releases its voter-based poll of the best anime songs of the year. 2011 results look like... that of 2010 with Inazuma Eleven (and Inazuma Eleven GO) dominating the list. Inazuma Eleven fans voted in droves for 2 years in a row. 4 of my personal Top 10 of 2011 made it - not bad considering that 5 Inazuma Eleven songs made the Top 10. View my Top 100 of 2011 here and view the Animage list below:

Spoiler for LIST OF THE TOP ANIME SONGS OF 2011 according to ANIMAGE MAGAZINE:

@murasakiiro: I agree, "Moonlight Densetsu" is an undisputed anison classic. I'll discuss a little bit about the song:
Moonlight Densetsu (or "Moonlight Legend") was the opening theme song for the first four seasons of the Sailor Moon anime. The song's lyrics were written by Kanako Oda and the melody was composed by Tetsuya Komoro. Much of the melody was lifted from Chieko Baisho's 1965 "cha-cha style" hit "Sayonara wa Dance no Ato ni". You can listen to the song below:

Two different versions of this song were used for the anime. The first and the definitive version, performed by DALI and arranged by Daisuke Ikeda, was used for the duration of the first season and Sailor Moon R. The second, performed by Moon Lips and arranged by Yuuzo Hayashi, was used for Sailor Moon S and Sailor Moon SuperS. The basic melody was also used for the theme song in the English dub, as well as several other non-Japanese dubs.

Although "Moonlight Densetsu" did not sold much as a single it is today the most played karaoke anison from the 1990's beating out Neon Genesis Evangelion's "Zankoku na Tenshi no Te-ze" & Slam Dunk's "Anata Dake Mitsumeteru"(source:Joysound) and subject to numerous cover over the years.

Extra: TOP 10 ZARD ANIME SONGS
The Japanese Internet service provider BIGLOBE posted the results of a user-conducted survey (using BIGLOBE's Anime Ranking Maker system) on the best ZARD anime songs in celebration of the 5th death anniversary of ZARD's beautiful frontwoman, Izumi Sakai. Below are the top 10 choices:

Nana Mizuki has become the seiyuu with the most top 10 singles in the Oricon weekly chart. It's Mizuki's 27th single, 17th top-10 single overall and 16th in a row. She was previously tied at 16 with Megumi Hayashibara. It also marks her 14th single in a row that charted in the top 5, and her 10th to chart in the top 3.

EXTRA:
The Japanese Internet service provider BIGLOBE posted the results of a user-conducted survey (using BIGLOBE's Anime Ranking Maker system) on the best OPs & EDs of Spring Anime 2012. Below are the top 10 vote-getters:

Hmmm, I am not sure if these were already suggested and I admit that I didn't read through the whole thread, but at least I didn't find them on one of your lists which I DID check. So I'll just go ahead with suggesting some OPs and EDs that imho deserve to be on an "awesome" list. The only criteria applied though is my own taste I am afraid.

The Japanese Internet service provider BIGLOBE posted the results of a user-conducted survey (using BIGLOBE's Anime Ranking Maker system) on the best anime songs of the 1990's. Below are the top 10 vote-getters (pretty good list btw):

The theme songs of anime or the animations of other media distributed from September of the previous year to August of the year in Japan become candidates. The vote by fans is done, and the best five voted songs become the candidates to final. Below are the best songs of each year:

BIGLOBE, in a user-conducted poll, posted a survey result on the most anticipated opening and endings for the summer anime season. Among the 2,441 self-selected responses from users of BIGLOBE's Anime One portal site, these were the 45 choices:

Miss this site janfive, since it no longer accepts recommendation, I stop posting anything besides almost everything have been recommended so far, last spring's anime have tons of great OST and songs. Its been a wonderful run of three years and so.